BILL NUMBER: SCR 80	CHAPTERED  06/28/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   85
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 28, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 26, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   MAY 24, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Speier and Burton
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Wright)

                        MAY 1, 2000

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 80--Relative to prostate cancer.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 80, Speier.  Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
   This measure would proclaim the month of June 2000 as Prostate
Cancer Awareness Month.




   WHEREAS, In 1999, prostate cancer was expected to kill nearly
40,000 men in the United States, with 125,000 new cases in California
expected to be diagnosed; and
   WHEREAS, Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among men in
the United States, comprising more than 41 percent of all cancer
cases; and
   WHEREAS, African-Americans have the highest, most terminal
incidence of prostate cancer in the world; and
   WHEREAS, This disease has a devastating impact on men and their
families; and
   WHEREAS, Although California's Cancer Research Program spends
nearly 33 percent of its research budget on prostate cancer, prostate
cancer still receives only 5 percent of federal cancer research
dollars; and
   WHEREAS, Father's Day occurs in the month of June, and CaP CURE, a
national association for the cure of prostate cancer, sponsors the
CaP CURE Home Run Challenge in the week around that remembrance day,
where individuals pledge contributions for each home run hit in 60
scheduled games, and those contributions are matched by the Major
League Baseball Players Association with expenses underwritten by the
Milken Family Foundation; and
   WHEREAS, The numerous prostate cancer support groups in the state
and the California Prostate Cancer Coalition, in conjunction with the
California Chapter of the American Cancer Society, and the National
Prostate Cancer Coalition are working toward raising awareness and
research funds dedicated to advances in treatment and, ultimately, a
cure for prostate cancer; and
   WHEREAS, The East and West Bay Regions of the American Cancer
Society are sponsoring a conference entitled "GET CONNECTED: Prostate
Cancer Information Exchange" at the UCSF-Cole Hall in San Francisco
on the Saturday before Father's Day; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the month
of June 2000 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the President of the United States, the Governor of
the State of California, the Secretary of the United States
Department of Health and Human Services, and to each Senator and
Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.
